Cannonball

[vagabond]

This is my first posting.  I'm very eager to learn and improve.  Looking forward to your help.


Cannonball
 
 
Bobby had a single plan to leave it all to that old man.
An brand new stage; a different cast; just how long can one storm last?
 
I saw him and I turned away, I left him to his own decay.    since this is the only line where the narrator comes in and no further relation is given i would rather leave it out because it interrupts the story.
He took to drink and losing fights and beaten dogs are known to bite.  somehow this shows an adult, but the lines that follow seem to talk of a child. you might move it further below.
 
And Bobby was a cannonball flying thru each shattered wall.
Not a thing would slow him down ‘til he buried in the ground.
A hunk of iron burning hot: betting on a single shot.
He knew he’d get one single fall.
Who could stop a cannonball?
Yes, who could stop a cannonball?
 
His treasure formed a tiny pile and getting to sleep could take a while.    for rhythm (if you want): ".. and finding sleep could take a while"
Rumbling nights are dark and cold when you don’t believe a word you’re told.  hmm.. it could also make sense to write you don´t believe a word you´re told when rumbling nights are dark and cold. it would bring up images of the rumbling as batting the child in my view. 
 
Who can tell them all the cause?  They never wait for Santa Clause.   this line somehow doesn´t make sense to me.
They wear a shirt to hide a bruise and walk to school in dirty shoes.
 
And Bobby was a cannonball busting thru each shattered wall.
Pure inertia made him fly, whistling through the midnight sky.          
He never knew just how to be with his potential energy,               you might change it into "use his potential energy somehow" of course it´s hard or even impossible for an abused child to do that or say, direct it properly. i think the above line with the beaten dogs that are known to bite would fit in well after this. 
A sonic boom will sound his fall.
Who can stop a cannonball?
Yeah, who can stop a cannonball?

a good poem. i only understood the content after the explanation but then it would make it a lot plainer to explain in the poem. that´s always hard to do.